KENNETH WONG
kennethwong@berkeley.edu 415•566•7001 CELL 415•710•8682 Kennethwongsf@
08/2015 to Present
BURMESE LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR
U.C. Berkeley
California
PUBLISHING CREDITS
develop and teach Beginning and Intermediate Burmese courses;
prepare lessons based on real-world materials (proverbs, story excerpts, poems, song lyrics, and newspaper comic strips);
hold classes for five hours a week;
produce audio clips for pronunciation help;
manage the course website;
grade student papers and assignments;
participate in academic and cultural events to promote Burmese language;
Easy Burmese: A Complete Language Course and Dictionary (Tuttle Publishing, 2019)
Survival Burmese: Phrasebook and Dictionary (Tuttle Publishing, 2018)
A Prayer for Burma (Santa Monica Press, 2003), travelogue and memoir
short stories and essays in Grain, AGNI, and San Francisco Chronicle
articles and commentaries in Myanmar Times and Irrawaddy magazines
Burmese poetry translation in Mekong Review, mekongreview.com
BURMESE LESSONS ONLINE
YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/kwong-burmese-lessons
FILM & TV CREDITS
narrator and subtitle translator for This Kind of Love, a documentary about a Burmese human rights educator, directed by Jeanne Marie Hallacy, released 2015
a narrator in The Golden Land of Myanmar, directed by Shoshana Korson, Drow Millar, released 2014
a narrator in They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain, directed by Robert H. Lieberman, released 2012
a translator for MTV: Rebel Music, Myanmar episode (http://www.rebelmusic.com/#!music/ rebel-music/episode/myanmar)
former reporter and blogger at LinkAsia (http://www.linktv.org/linkasia), a weekly news program
EDUCATION
1984-88: Rangoon University, Rangoon, Burma. English Majo